THE COLONIAL PERIOD: How the men were parted from the women / Fray Ramon Pane
A maiden's story / Popol Vuh
Tocay Capac, the first Inca / Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
Plague of ants / Fray Bartolome de las Casas
The story of Pedro Serrano / Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca
The adventurer who pretended that he was a bishop / Gaspar de Villarroel
Amorous and military adventures / Catalina de Erauso ("The lieutenant nun")
A deal with Juana Garcia / Juan Rodriguez Freyle. NEW NATIONS: The slaughter house / Esteban Echeverria
The tiger of the plains / Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
He who listens may hear
to his regret: confidence of a confidence / Juana Manuela Gorriti
Fray Gomez's scorpion / Ricardo Palma
Midnight mass / Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD: The death of the empress of China / Ruben Dario
Yzur / Leopoldo Lugones
The decapitated chicken / Horacio Quiroga
The baby in pink buckram / Joao do Rio (Paulo Barreto)
The man who resembled a horse / Rafael Arevalo Martinez
The braider / Ricardo Guiraldes
The man who knew Javanese / Alfonso Henriques de Lima Barreto
Peace on high / Romulo Gallegos
The Christmas turkey / Mario de Andrade
The daisy dolls / Felisberto Hernandez
The photograph / Enrique Amorim
The clearing / Luisa Mercedes Levinson
The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges
Journey back to the source / Alejo Carpentier
The tree / Maria Luisa Bombal
The legend of 'El Cadejo' / Miguel Angel Asturias
Encarnacion Mendoza's Christmas Eve / Juan Bosch
The third bank of the river / Joao Guimaraes Rosa
The image of misfortune / Juan Carlos Onetti
Tell them not to kill me! / Juan Rulfo
Hahn's pentagon / Osman Lins
The switchman / Juan Jose Arreola
The featherless buzzards / Julio Ramon Ribeyro
Meat / Virgilio Piñera
Unborn / Augusto Roa Bastos
The night face up / Julio Cortazar
Cooking lesson / Rosario Castellanos
The doll queen / Carlos Fuentes
The walk / Jose Donoso
Balthazar's marvelous afternoon / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The challenge / Mario Vargas Llosa
The crime of the mathematics professor / Clarice Lispector
Buried statues / Antonio Benitez Rojo
A woman's back / Jose Balza
The warmth of things / Nelida Piñon
Penelope / Dalton Trevisan
The threshold / Christina Peri Rossi
The parade ends / Reinaldo Arenas
When women love men / Rosario Ferre.